類型：英語(yǔ)閱讀
時(shí)間：2020-05-01
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A
mother duck was
brooding on her eggs near the
margin of a pond. A
flock of
lovely baby
ducks was soon born,
making sweet peeping sounds when the eggs were
broken. But one egg
remained unbroken. "It is
strange. Why has this egg not
broken?"
The
mother duck
continued her
brooding. At last, the egg was
broken and a baby duck was born.
However that baby duck was very ugly
compared to the
other baby
ducks.
The
mother duck was
worried, but
still she took the baby
ducks near the
water and
taught them how to swim. The ugly
duckling also swam with his
brothers and
sisters,
moving his legs
eagerly. "It is
lucky though. That baby
swims well."
Still his
brothers pecked at the ugly
duckling with
their bills.
"How
hideous this baby duck is. We don't want to see you. Go to a cat." His
brothers gave a very hard time to the poor
duckling. "Stop it, don't do that!" The
mother duck
sighed and said, "Ah! I wish that this baby
could live
happily at
another place."
The baby duck
heard what his
mother said and
dropped tears of
sorrow saying, "Mom, I will
leave.
Good-bye." The ugly
duckling left his nest
beyond the pond.
When he
entered the
forest,
other birds were
frightened by the baby duck and ran away. "Why do they run away? Is it
because I am so
awful?" The baby duck
became sadder and
plodded along the
field.
Near the
water beside the
field, two wild
ducks were
playing around. "Yah, what is that ugly duck? Let's make fun of him." The two wild
ducks flew up in the air and
threw stones at the baby duck.
"Bang! Bang!" At that time, a
hunter shot his gun. The two wild
ducks fell down dead to the
ground. "Uh? What is this
small bird?" The
hunter took home the
awkward little baby duck
along with the two wild
ducks.
"Dad, what is this poor-looking bird?" "I took it with me in
order to give it to you, my son. It was
trembling with fear in the
water." The
children gave a hard time to the baby duck by
pulling its
wings and tail.
"That
hurts! Ow!" The baby duck
spilled a jug of milk
while running away from the
cruel hands of the
children. The
dishes on the
table were also
broken. The
angry hunter sent out the baby duck with a
flourish of his
broomstick. And so the
after being cast out from the
house of the
hunter, the ugly
duckling spent a long and cold
winter alone.
Finally spring came. The baby duck had a good
stretch and flew up in the air
vigorously. "Uh! I am
flying!"
Upon the lake, a
flock of
white and
pretty swans were
playing around while swimming. "They are
indeed pretty birds." The baby duck
became sad. "Those
birds may not like me as I am so ugly."
The baby duck
tried to run away from the
group of
beautiful swans. "Hi!
Where are you
going? Come and play
around with us!" The baby duck
approached the
swans hesitatingly. At that
moment, the baby duck saw his own
appearance reflected to the lake.
There was one more
beautiful swan
gliding gracefully across the
water.
The ugly
duckling who
overcame all
suffering had
finally become a
beautiful swan. And so he
lived happily ever
after.
單詞注釋：
brooding adj. 沉思的;徘徊不去的
peeping v. 唧唧叫;窺探(peep的ing形式)
例句：They were
peeping at us from
behind curtains .
他們從窗簾后在偷看我們。
eagerly adv. 急切地;渴望地;熱心地
例句：The
children eagerly learn something new from the
teacher every day.
孩子們每天都渴望從老師身上學(xué)習(xí)新事物。
hideous adj. 可怕的;丑惡的
例句：The
dollar, for all its
blemishes, is the
least hideous-looking.
美元，就算算上它全部的僻陋，也是最看得起眼的。
awkward adj. 笨拙的;尷尬的;棘手的;不合適的
cruel adj. 殘酷的，殘忍的;使人痛苦的
例句：
Without love a
person could go
hayward and also
become cruel and
ferocious.
沒(méi)有愛(ài)的人生可能會(huì)誤入禁區(qū)，也會(huì)變得殘酷而兇惡。
hesitatingly adv. 躊躇地;支吾其詞地
例句：move
hesitatingly, as if
about to give way.
躊躇地走動(dòng)，好像打算讓路。
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